Karlstad plays host to some great innovations at the City Challenge Tour, Feb 25 2010. In this part we meet the innovators (swedish language). The organisers of the event were Fem, Stål & Verkstad and Globe Forum.
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Innovators rehearsal in Karlstad has come to an end
February 24, 2010 – 11:36 pm
It was a student, a Norwegian, and a woman…..and I am not trying to tell a funny story about our lovely Norwegian neighbours, this is a true story about my afternoon. I have spent half a day at Karlstad University listening to innovators rehearsing their mind-boggling pitches that will solve some of the challenges that [...]
Globe Forum Tour 2010
February 23, 2010 – 10:30 am
Inför årets Globe Forum i Stockholm går Globe Forum på tour i Sverige för att finna de bästa miljötekniska innovationerna i landet. Första stoppet är Karlstad, den 25 februari. Tävlingen arrangeras av Stål & Verkstad inom ramen för interregprojektet FEM och Globe Forum i samarbete med klusterorganisationer, företag och universitet i regionen.
Windowfarms
January 26, 2010 – 1:15 pm
NYC artists Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray about their hydroponic project called Window Farm.
In New York City a group have moved on to sourcing food directly from their apartment windows. No joke.
The organisation is called Windowfarms, and is a new movement toward hydroponic, vertical farming in urban areas.
Why not start to grow your own okra, [...]
Great names join Globe Award Jury
January 25, 2010 – 4:46 pm
These unique experts will select laureates for the Sustainability Innovation Award 2010 and the Sustainable City Award 2010. They will help to reach an objective and fair verdict. Therefore their contribution to Globe Award’s development will be crucial.
Awareness of global warming
January 23, 2010 – 9:22 pm
Global warming is not newly known, nearly half a century before Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” this film was made.
The exerpt is from the well known educational documentary “Unchained Goddess” produced by Frank Capra for Bell Labs television program “The Bell Telephone Hour.”
/Annelie Andersson
Time for a mental shift!
January 13, 2010 – 9:27 am
The sun has been working hard since the beginning of the earth’s history, c. five billion years ago. It’s sending us enormous amounts of energy, each hour the same amount that the entire humanity is using for a whole year. It’s causing the wind to blow, the water to move, the trees to grow. And [...]
Do you know a sustainability hero?
January 11, 2010 – 3:40 pm
Think about that innovator you met, that amazing individual who was so passionate about his solution for a more sustainable planet… Don’t you think he deserves recognition?
Or the company you work for, are they putting efforts in sustainability reporting? Fantastic!
How about the city you live in, shouldn’t the project on recycling, or perhaps solar panels [...]
Connect locally to leverage sustainable values
December 28, 2009 – 3:31 pm
It all started when natural products industry veterans, Mark Retzloff and Paul Repetto, embarked on a search for organic milk and happened upon a cooperative of small organic dairy farmers in Wisconsin. The cooperative consisted of a handful of visionary dairymen and women who believed in organic values, exactly the ideals Retzloff and Repetto sought. [...]
Will Poland be a hero also in the new climate protocol?
December 16, 2009 – 10:32 am
Poland holds back the new climate targets in Europe. Not very good in relations to ambitious goals. But is the hero the one that sets the highest goals or the one that achieves them?
Poland deserve some commend due to the fact that the country has decreased their CO2-emissions by 30 percent since 1990, during the same period Spain has [...]
